Mark Halpern, certified financial planner and president of illnessPROTECTION.com, finds time to give back to the community by running half-marathons, designing planned giving programs for charities and teaching advisors how to incorporate charitable giving. He spoke with Megan Harman, reporter with Investment Executive, at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
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